Recollection Quotes
We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.
Plato, Benjamin Jowett (2009). “Five Great Dialogues of Plato: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo”, p.70, Coyote Canyon Press
The Irrational Knot (1905) ch. 14
Memory is never pure. And recollection is always coloured by the life lived since
Josephine Hart (1993). “Sin”
"Corinne" by Madame de Stael, Book IX, Chapter II, 1807.
One can begin a picture and carry it through and stop it and do nothing about the title at all.
William Baziotes (1978). “William Baziotes: A Retrospective Exhibition : an Exhibition”
"Belief & Technique For Modern Prose: List of Essentials" in a letter to Arabelle Porter (28 May 1955); published in "Jack Kerouac: Selected Letters 1940-1956" by Jack Kerouac, 1995.
To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.
Agnes Repplier (1891). “Points of View”, Boston Houghton, Mifflin 1893.